Issue #10651 has been updated by Josh Cooper.

Status changed from Unreviewed to Investigating
Assignee set to Josh Cooper

Hi Ian,

Puppet does allow properties to be interpolated in terms of other properties:

<pre>
modulepath = $confdir/somedir
</pre>

But it doesn't allow properties to be recursively interpolated (as it leads to 
the infinite recursion you saw):

<pre>
modulepath = /otherdir:$modulepath
</pre>

WIth that said, I can understand why you'd want to do this, especially for 
things like modulepath, where you want to add to the default set of paths.
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Bug #10651: Can't augment the default modulepath in puppet.config
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/10651

Author: Ian Brandt
Status: Investigating
Priority: Normal
Assignee: Josh Cooper
Category: 
Target version: 
Affected Puppet version: 2.7.6
Keywords: 
Branch: 


With my puppet.config as follows:

    [main]
    modulepath = $modulepath:/my/module/path

I find `:/my/module/path` is simply dropped:

    $ puppet apply -e 'notice("$settings::modulepath")'
    notice: Scope(Class[main]): 
/Users/ibrandt/.puppet/modules:/usr/share/puppet/modules
    notice: Finished catalog run in 0.02 seconds

I've tried several variations:

    [main]
    modulepath = ${modulepath}:/my/module/path

...

    $ puppet apply -e 'notice("$settings::modulepath")'
    err: Could not parse /Users/ibrandt/.puppet/puppet.conf: Could not parse 
'${modulepath}:/my/module/path'
    notice: Scope(Class[main]): 
/Users/ibrandt/.puppet/modules:/usr/share/puppet/modules
    notice: Finished catalog run in 0.02 seconds

And:

    [main]
    modulepath = ${settings::modulepath}:/my/module/path

...

    $ puppet apply -e 'notice("$settings::modulepath")'
    err: Could not parse /Users/ibrandt/.puppet/puppet.conf: Could not parse 
'${settings::modulepath}:/my/module/path'
    notice: Scope(Class[main]): 
/Users/ibrandt/.puppet/modules:/usr/share/puppet/modules
    notice: Finished catalog run in 0.02 seconds

And:

    [main]
    modulepath = $settings::modulepath:/my/module/path

...

    $ puppet apply -e 'notice("$settings::modulepath")'
    Could not prepare for execution: Could not find value for $settings

And:

    [main]
    modulepath = /my/module/path:${modulepath}

...

    $ puppet apply -e 'notice("$settings::modulepath")'
    err: Could not parse /Users/ibrandt/.puppet/puppet.conf: Could not parse 
'/my/module/path:${modulepath}'
    notice: Scope(Class[main]): 
/Users/ibrandt/.puppet/modules:/usr/share/puppet/modules
    notice: Finished catalog run in 0.02 seconds

And:

    [main]
    modulepath = /my/module/path:$modulepath

...

    $ puppet apply -e 'notice("$settings::modulepath")'
    /Users/ibrandt/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/lib/ruby/1.8/sync.rb:214:in 
`sync_unlock': stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
    from /Users/ibrandt/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.8.7-p352/lib/ruby/1.8/sync.rb:232:in 
`synchronize'
    from 
/Users/ibrandt/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@etp/gems/puppet-2.7.6/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:661:in
 `uninterpolated_value'
    from 
/Users/ibrandt/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@etp/gems/puppet-2.7.6/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:811:in
 `each_source'
    from 
/Users/ibrandt/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@etp/gems/puppet-2.7.6/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:808:in
 `each'
    from 
/Users/ibrandt/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@etp/gems/puppet-2.7.6/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:808:in
 `each_source'
    from 
/Users/ibrandt/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@etp/gems/puppet-2.7.6/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:658:in
 `uninterpolated_value'
    from 
/Users/ibrandt/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@etp/gems/puppet-2.7.6/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:657:in
 `catch'
    from 
/Users/ibrandt/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@etp/gems/puppet-2.7.6/lib/puppet/util/settings.rb:657:in
 `uninterpolated_value'
    ... 2790 levels...
    from 
/Users/ibrandt/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@etp/gems/puppet-2.7.6/lib/puppet/util/command_line.rb:69:in
 `execute'
    from 
/Users/ibrandt/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@etp/gems/puppet-2.7.6/bin/puppet:4
    from /Users/ibrandt/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@etp/bin/puppet:19:in `load'
    from /Users/ibrandt/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.8.7-p352@etp/bin/puppet:19
    
And:

    [main]
    defaultmodulepath = $modulepath
    modulepath = $defaultmodulepath:/my/module/path

...

    $ puppet apply -e 'notice("$settings::modulepath")'
    Could not prepare for execution: Could not find value for $defaultmodulepath



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